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The customary weekly roundupIt’s been a while since my last roundup. I’ve been trying my best to devote what free time I have to keep posting to the Personal Financier. I hope you find my posts to be at an adequate level. I’ve told you all about my new job (which takes about 65 hours of my time each week) and so I’ve reduced my posting frequency to twice a week.As always I appreciate your

One thing I usually like about the MLB Playoffs is the fact that since so few teams make the postseason, every series is competitive, even in the first round.-Well, this year, all four series are the polar opposite. All four favor one of the teams 2-0.---------BREWERS 0--PHILLIES 2Remember when the Brewers were on their final-week rampage that included two walk-off wins against the Bucs? Well, I [

With the Blessing of Allah almighty and the support from all my fellows readers - The month of September has finally come to an end. I consider this month a milestone for Skidzopedia; since it got a PR (page rank) of 2 in the last week of September. I know its not much for some, but [...]

This has been a tough week for our nation’s economy and stock market, but there was cause for celebration for me and my website: this week Cash Money Life celebrated its 1,000,000th page view! This is a huge milestone and I want to thank everyone who has been a part of it and helped me [...]

Weekend Roundup: God, where do the weeks go? Yes it is once again for the weekend roundup. Let's get this party started...shall we? On My Mind: Well it has been a better week this week...I am in a good mood and have been for quite a while. I did get the 200 rounds of Wolf 7.62 I ordered from Cheap Than Dirt a few days ago. I also got my annual order from the US Mint. I purchase a Proof Silver Ea

I know that many of you are going to head out shopping this weekend. We've got the latest in sales that are going on in your favorite stores. Check them out and save some money!~A huge sale is going on at Banana Republic. You can save up to 60% online and in the store.~Celebrate Columbus Day early at Old Navy. There they are having a $14.92 and under sale taking place online and in stores from Oct

Warriors training camp opened up 4 days ago and there have been tons of Warrior articles floating around the world wide web. I’m just going to try to compile some of them for your reading pleasure. The articles have covered everything from Monta’s return to who’s on the roster to life after Baron. The Warriors [...]

With the way the economy is right now, I know that my wallet loves a good sale. Here are some of the best sales going on at our favorite stores---~A fall sale is going on at Urban Planet. Take an extra 50% off red ticket items!~Wet Seal now has tops for only $5, as well as 30% off clearance items. And don't worry about shipping charges because there is FREE SHIPPING on all orders over $70.~Sweater

 THEMGOODS HAS SOME GREAT COVERAGE OF THE RECENT AIL EVEN, I WON’T RUIN THE WHOLE THING BUT HERE’S SOME CHOICE PIECES. ON BLAST. POW. GOOD TURN OUT JJ HALL OF FAMER. VICTOR. AM SHIRT. THUMBS UP. 2008, WHAT RECESSION!!??!! BLACK PRESIDENT!!!! YOU’VE ALL SEEN THESE, BUT MAN - THE BROSKOWS LOOK REAL GOOD. CHECK OUT THE REST HERE, AS [...]

photo credit: Shiny Things The last couple of weeks in the financial sector have been tough ones, with the markets going up and down (mostly down), rumors of bailout packages, legislation for said bailouts being voted down, lawmakers blaming each other for the plan’s failure and one of the largest drops in the markets in [...]

Quantum Performance, an Authorized Shelby Mod Shop will honor the legendary Carroll Shelby with its first annual Team Shelby Texas Roundup Drive on October 25, 2008. The event, which will begin at Quantum Performance’s state-of-the-art shops at 13700 Diplomat Drive in Farmers Branch, will feature a rally near Mr. Shelby’s birthplace and end at Northeast [...]ShareThis

Links this week include news on the Orphan Works, shooting tethered, elements of composition, Photoshop CS4, a movie from the 5D'II, the business of photography, a side-by-side camera review, finding inspiration, and more Photoshop talk.

I’m out of town this weekend visiting my mother and she doesn’t have internet.  I’ve scheduled this post in advance but won’t be on to check comments or emails until Sunday evening. Here are some posts I enjoyed from the Frugal Blog Network and beyond this week. Almost Frugal shares “three life lessons” she learned last week.  [...]

Weekend Roundup: Changing up the format of the weekend roundup folks...this will be the 10th edition and I need to inject some new blood into the mix. Writing this blog is a hell of a lot of work, I never imagined the time it would consume to post everyday. I have a fulltime job and am also going to college in my "spare time". I have been hanging in there but I won't lie it has been tough. Thank t

Here is a quick look at what is happening in the real estate markets across Canada. ↔ = Flat; ↑ = Increase; ↓ = Decrease Toronto - Prices ↔; Sales ↓ Vancouver - Prices ↓; Sales ↓ Edmonton -  Prices ↓; Sales ↑ Calgary - Prices ↓; Sales ↓ Saskatoon - Prices ↓; Sales ↓ Winnipeg - Prices ↑; Sales ↓ Montreal - Prices ↑; Sales ↓ New Brunswick - Prices [...]

This week on the Roundup we are having a salute to the sweet tooth! Below are three fabulous recipes for those who enjoy the craft of the confectioners. Italian Wedding Cookies from Food Network Drunken Devils Food Espresso Cupcakes from Ms Adventures in Italy Cannoli from Italian Food at About.com If any of these recipes have tickled your fancy, be sure to leave us a message!  We love to hear

I spent this past week feeling sick. As a result, I didn’t really have any cravings for candy or snacks, as much as I just wanted my stomach to feel better; however, as much as my stomach wasn’t thinking about those things, my brain was still consumed in delicious thoughts. I typically make an attempt to [...]

While PR Couture finalizes its new blog design, keep busy with the latest links from IFB Thanks to everyone who participated this week!It’s always so lovely to browse around the great links from the roundup… this week we have an ingenious shoe storage solution, an homage to my personal style hero the irreverent Winona Ryder, great [...]

Okay, I own an iPhone but I am interested in Google’s Android OS and the phones that will come out with that operating system on it… Just thought I’d take a look feature by feature and see how we stand… 2.Apps Both platforms promise tons of applications, both platforms promise to deliver them wirelessly via online stores. [...]

Well another week comes to a close and that means another edition of the weekend roundup! More tips and links to some of my favorite blog posts from around the blogosphere... FROM THE DESK OF FLEA Well I have another semester coming to an end at school and that means final projects due this weekend. Work is killing me as well, I have a project going to functional testing this week and we have had

This week was an interesting one for hundreds of thousands of people nationwide, as Hurricane Ike left a path of destruction from the gulf coast of Texas, up through Pennsylvania. Here in Ohio we had sustained winds in the 50-60 mph range for several hours, which caused wind damage to trees, houses, and other property, [...]

"Recipes without the author, without the cuisine to which they were once a living, seamless part, die."John Thorne I'm delighted to be playing host to this week's round-up of BOOKMARKED RECIPES, a wonderful weekly event hosted by Ruth of Ruth's Kitchen Experiments. When Ruth asked if I was OK to host her baby for a week, I readily said yes. To tell you the truth, I was literally shivering with fea

Hurricane Ike struck Texas with a fury this weekend and I want to extend my thoughts and prayers to everyone out there who was affected. I grew up in a town between Houston and Galveston, which is the area that was hardest hit by the hurricane. My family (including my parents) and friends that still [...]

I’ve had insomnia most of this week which has kept me from being motivated to do much.  I’ve slept good the last couple nights though so hopefully it has passed. Here are my favorite posts from the Frugal Blog Network and beyond this week. Almost Frugal has a post on Setting Goals in the Face of [...]

Well another week comes to a close and that means another edition of the weekend roundup! More tips and links to some of my favorite blog posts from around the blogosphere... FROM THE DESK OF FLEA Another week gone...where does time go? Anyhow I am probably at the range right now with my new Yugo M70 Under Folder. I picked up three more 30 round mags like the one it came with; Yugo, steel and hol

First thing in this week's roundup: a guardian.co.uk photo-feature on some of the oddest book titles of the past 30 years. The feature itself is titled 'Oddest book title prize'; is it really the book titles that are odd, or just the prize? Either way, thanks for the link, Sarah.And when did the Guardian website stop calling itself Guardian Unlimited? Missed that one completely.***Second, my new f

This week we tried to do a menu instead of a few random recipes. Starting off with the delicious Mushroom Melts for an appetizer, then moving to the famous but mistranslated Italian Wedding Soup (the term comes from the name minestra maritata, defining a ‘marriage’ between the ingredients), stuffed eggplant for the main course, and finishing up with the delightful Zuccotto cake. Capr

As promised earlier on Tuesday, I’m following up the (affiliated) lower division roundup with a quick look back on the positions so far in the Torneo Argentino A, and also attempting to explain how on earth Argentino B, which really does make the Primera A system of relegation and continental Copa qualification look like the [...]

This again-This guy, like, has some interesting fuckin' like, stuff to say about "literature." It is like, insightful and shit. Say what you want about Harry Potter, it has done a huge amount of good for modern reading. I read the first few (4) books and then fell off the wagon. It wasn't for me, but that doesn't mean much. I read The Catcher in the Rye the summer before eight grade and haven

There may have been no matches in Primera A the weekend just gone, but the lower divisions carried on as normal, unaffected by the performances (or otherwise) of the world’s national teams. Now, then, seems as good a time as any to have a quick look at how the first month or so of lower [...]

Weekend Wokking is a world-wide food blogging event created by Wandering Chopsticks celebrating the multiple ways we can cook one ingredient. Every month the current host gets to pick the secret ingredient for the next round. Last month it was tomato, hosted by Blazing Hot Wok and Darlene chose eggplant for this month. This roundup is very special to me since it is my 100th post! Can't believe I g

Sex is breaking out all over downunder. The head of the New Zealand Golf Council, Garth Stirrat has been given the bum’s rush after it was found he starred in a porn movie and porn shoots under the name Steve Parnell. The guy who appointed him, who goes by the pornstar name of Zayne Boone, said [...]

Well another week comes to a close and that means another edition of the weekend roundup! More tips and links to some of my favorite blog posts from around the blogosphere... FROM THE DESK OF FLEA Spent most of the week worrying about tropical storms and hurricanes...what a drag. One good thing to report is my knee is feeling much better and it did not require a visit to the old doctor. ADMINIS

Racing Roundup: Wednesday, September 3, 2008The U.S. Trotting Association Newsroom, OH - Sep 5, 2008DTM (Ilooklikemymom-Miss Gigi D) won the other split of the 2-year-old filly trot in 2:07.3, while First To Cruise (Yankee Cruiser-First To Stand) remained ...

Few things are as essential to my life as candy. One of the others is college football. So to kickoff the season, a fellow UCLA Bruin alumni and I headed down to a local sports bar to watch the Bruins play (and beat) the Tennessee Volunteers. Maybe it’s because Tennessee is a lot closer to [...]

Eiffel Tower’s lights are to go out Since January 1, 2000, every hour after dusk, the 20,000 bulbs twinkle brilliantly for ten minutes in what has become a tourist hit. But starting next month, Sete, the company subcontracted by Paris to run the tower, has decided to half the time the bulbs are on, cutting illumination [...]

Here we go kiddos, take a few minutes to fill out some forms and watch the surprises pile up in your mailbox in a few weeks.  Pantene Expressions with liquid crystalsPledge Multi Surface WipesFiber One Honey Clusters cereal AND Fiber One Oats and Chocolate Bar plus couponsNew Bounce Awakenings dryer sheetsTrue Lemon (these are awesome)Quaker Simple Harvest BarMetamucil Berry BurstLactaidPlaytex D

Abstract Background How To Make 3D Vector Vintage Stars How to Create a See-through Information Graphic Extreme sports branding Grid masking Create a Glowing Abstract Light Vector Graphic Web 2.0 Logo Reflection in Vector format with Illustrator Technical Illustrations Create An Aperture Style Camera Lens Icon

Last week i’ve posted a web roundup article regarding Flash 3D Engine called Papervision 3D. This time, i will be showing you more cool articles but about another awesome 3d engine called Away3D. You can find more about them at their official site. Starting up with Away 3D Intermediate / Advanced Tutorials Cool Demos with Source [...]

Well another week comes to a close and that means another edition of the weekend roundup! More tips and links to some of my favorite blog posts zombie websites from around the blogosphere web... FROM THE DESK OF FLEA I am going camping this weekend...hurray for me! We are busting out the pop-up and heading to the state park. The fish are trembling with fear as I write this! ADMINISTRATIVE STUFF

Each week in our Friday Recipe Roundup, we collect some of the best authentic Italian recipes we can find to help give you a bit of Italy at home.  Enjoy! Penne with Ricotta and Baby Tomatoes from Food Blogga Penne Filetto di Pomodoro from Italian Chef Italian Stuffed Mushrooms from Epicurious If you have any recipes of your own that you want to share, please send them in!  Or if you try out a

Well PR Couture missed submitting to this round - how is it Thursday already! -  but we still love all the links for this week. Enjoy! Links à la Mode : August 28th AuctionDivaFashion - Vintage Hawaiian Pineapple Dress dramatis personae - Boundaries between designing & knock-offs Dress Me Up Dollie - Weekend Update Fashion Journalist in the City - [...]

As an active member of communities touching the interactive advertising world I answer many questions on a daily basis. Each month I will round of some of the best questions and answers for your consumption. If you have a question about a subject related to interactive advertising, you can email Nick Kinports at nickkinports@aol.com. Joy Abdulla asks: How can social marketing be shown to be effe

Are you getting the free Gamesweasel video show? Sony’s had a lot to announce at Leipzig this week. The PSP 3000 will have a clearer screen and the same dimensions as the PSP Slim & Lite, there’s a new 160Gb PS3 on the way, a PS3 keyboard in the style of a BlackBerry that slots into [...]

Flash 3D engines brought to Internet a new dimension to designers present their work. Great works were made since Papervision 3D and other know 3D engines appeared. Today i bring you some cool stuff, that you can use in your own projects. If you don’t know yet how to start with Papervision 3d you might [...]

I’m happy to announce that Frugal Zeitgeist has joined the Frugal Blog Network.  She will make a great addition to the network.  Here are some of my favorite posts from FBN this week. Almost Frugal had a Your Frugal House series with frugal tips for every room in the house. Frugal Babe asked Do You Need a [...]

Well, I bit the bullet and joined a fantasy football league this year. That isn’t really noteworthy except that I don’t watch football, and I don’t know much about it, at least from a fantasy standpoint. But I am friends with several members of the fantasy football league, so this is a good chance for [...]

I did not participate in any carnivals this past week, but I found a few good posts in the Festival of Frugality No. 139: The Michael Phelps Edition, the Money Hacks Carnival No. 26: Old Money Edition, and the Carnival of Personal Finance #166: Around the World of Commodities! Here are some of my favorites. My [...]

Well another week comes to a close and that means another edition of the weekend roundup! More tips and links to some of my favorite blog posts from around the blogosphere... FROM THE DESK OF FLEA Rough week. Work is definitely trying to give me a heart attack or stroke for sure. On another note I seemed to have injured my right knee and I can't seem to recall how. It just hurts when I bend it b

A weekly roundup of publications, reports, events & articles from the leading UK think tanks. Welcome to this week’s Think-tank Roundup. This week we have calls to scrap the next census, ‘Policy Exchange do Blade Runner’ and even the suggestion that all this web stuff is slowly throttling the very idea of think-tanks – your correspondent, [...]

A few things in this week's roundup:According to LexioPhiles, the Engine Room is the 118th best language blog out there. Unfortunately we didn't manage to break into the top 100, but it's nice to see some of my favourite blogs doing so, including:Language Log (13th)Fritinancy (26th)Wordlustitude (27th)Separated by a Common Language (40th)and Omniglot (41st) However, apart from The Engine Room, the

Long time without posting on the desktop Adobe’s tool. So here it is a post full of great tutorials on different areas such as Flash, Flex, JavaScript or html. Creating A Downloader For YouTube with Air Create a To-do List in Five Minutes Building a Flash game on Adobe AIR Creating an Image Viewer in AIR With Drag and [...]

People need to know - “will I get another check?” If the amount of search traffic coming to this blog is any indication, people NEED to know if there is going to be another stimulus check coming their way in the coming months.  My guess is probably not.  In the next  year?  Maybe. photo credit: JOE [...]

Three Canadian cities to be featured on latest global Monopoly game The Canadian Press Canadian banks keep the taps open Globe & Mail CIBC World Markets sees softening in Canadian household credit The Canadian Press Ontario Launches Strategy To Reduce Poverty AHN U.S. housing starts dip to [...]

Adobe Illustrator is one of the most impressive illustration tools ever. I bring you today, once more a cool set of tutorials, which will help you to increase your skills and teaching you some tips. Cutaway Technical Illustration Create a Blissful Vector Scene Swirly curls Drawing a character face Blueprint-Style Text Command Shape Create a Designer Font Create Sketchy-Style Vectors Desig

Weekend Herb Blogging is a food blogging event created by Kalyn from Kalyn's Kitchen where each week food bloggers around the world post recipes about cooking with herbs and unusual vegetables or interesting ways to use vegetables, and it's heading into year three of blogging. Last week the event was hosted by Divya from Dil Se, and this week I have the honor to be your host. Here are the entries,

The way you present the data to the public, will determine the success on the user understanding or not. Therefore is it important to define it, by developing and testing several ways to present the same data. Creating charts can be also a concept of art, and be used to increase the good look of [...]

New greenbelt criteria offer Ontario’s construction industry greater certainty Daily Commercial News Siren call of the south The Chronicle Herald The U.S. Housing Slump Has Yet To Hit Bottom CNW Group Cottaging in Ontario’s deep south Toronto Star Heading for a soft landing National [...]

Over the weekend my wife and I started preparations for our Mediterranean cruise that we’ll be going on next month.  We went shopping for clothes, bought secure travel bags for carrying our things around and began doing some research for the tours we’ll be taking. photo credit: ccgd Our cruise will not be a frugal [...]

A weekly look at the politics stories and comment in the Sunday newspapers The summer is the time to try of new columnists or just mix it around a bit. Rafael Behr makes a good fist of it in the Observer's main politics slot arguing for the Westminster Village to take "fourth-party politics" more seriously. Despite the excruciating premiership football references (such laddishness is seen as nece

Tuesday will be my first day back in school for the fall semester. I had one week off between quitting my job and resuming school. I wish I would have been a little more productive but I enjoyed being lazy. Here are my favorite posts from the Frugal Blog Network and beyond for [...]

First, a very happy birthday to Madonna (yes, that’s her to the right in her prime), who has just turned 50. Actor Ernest Borgnine reveals the secret of his eternal youth - chronic masturbation. Writer Franz Kafka was a pornhound. “These are not naughty postcards from the beach. They are undoubtedly porn, pure and simple. Some of it [...]

Tense Olympic Tennis final with Elena Dementieva (above) and Dinara Safina (below) to play for Gold and Silver with Djokovic out in Bronze. A hectic Saturday With Rebecca Adlington of Team GB stealing the show in the swimming earlier on today (see Rebecca Adlington post) it’s been a gold rush day for Great Britain with [...]

Well another week comes to a close and that means another edition of the weekend roundup! More tips and links to some of my favorite blog posts from around the blogosphere... FROM THE DESK OF FLEA Well this was a good week. I plan on doing some work around the house this weekend and I am ahead on my posts for a change. I have several lined up for next week, which is always a big help with work an

US foreclosure filings surge 55 percent The Associated Press ‘Made in Canada’ label taking on new cachet in giftware marke Ottawa Citizen Housing Woes Building Financial Post Soft Ontario housing market fuels concern Globe & Mail Prices for detached homes down, but are still at the high end Globe & Mail For more real estate

Here at Tuscany Travel Tips we try and find the best recipes on the web to give you a little taste of Italy at home!  Whether you are planning your vacation now, visiting Italy currently, or got back from your summer vacation: its always the perfect time for a delicious Italian dish! Risotto Terra e Mare from Rubber Slippers in Italy Chicken Vessuvio from Italian Food Forever Roasted Apricot Pan

ABC News, WGME and Politico tackle the story here, here and here.And Jeff Parsons, who appears to be the person responsible for posting the original video, reacts here.Meanwhile, Gerald focuses on overlooked aspects of the interview here and Maine Politics posts an abbreviated, YouTube version here.UPDATE: PPH weighs in. At 6:37pm, the article dominates their homepage.UPDATE UPDATE: I forgot Sena

Here’s the AP article with quotes from players and talk about impact on the teams involved. Points in the Paint focuses on the PGs in the trade, and while the PGs are certainly the most important, I think overlooking Joe Smith in this trade is a fault. While Smith won’t be high on anyone’s fantasy [...]

PR Couture loves being a part of the community over at Independent Fashion Bloggers! Enjoy the link love this week with posts from other IFB fashion bloggers. couturee yourself - Get Nicole Ritchie’s Look For Less dramatis personae - In my early 20s, I was a bit of a club ho: weekdays out drankin’ and posin’ until [...]

Google has recently launched the AS3 version their well know Maps API, increasing the number of available AS3 maps API. In order to give a clear picture of the available maps API at this moment i decided today to create this list so you can choose which best fit your needs. BTW, if you know [...]

I’m sorry about not posting so regular as before, although last days have been too busy and dark for me. My car was destroyed in an accident, and my uncle died. The unique good thing on the last days was my daugter birthday I’m expecting to keep busy in the next days to organize [...]

With about 46 games left in the season, the Orioles head to the Midwest where they'll take on the Indians and Detroit Tigers before coming back home to face the Red Sox and Yankees.Despite everything that's been going with the team, it's been a pleasant surprise to see them four games under .500 after the dire predictions that many had in the media in the spring. Some fans are obviously disappoint

My wife and I watched part of the Olympic opening ceremonies, which I have to say was one of the most impressive displays of human coordination and synchronization I have ever seen. Amid the lights, sounds, and other media, the performers danced, sang, moved, and beat drums in ways I never could have imagined. I [...]

The customary weekly roundupWith some busy times ahead I certainly hope I can keep up my writing schedule. I’ll obviously do my best but I apologize in advance should I drop to two posts Monday through Friday. Hopefully It won’t come to it.Good news, I’ll be hosting the Money Hacks Carnival #25 here at The Personal Financier this Wednesday. I’ve gone through many good posts and I think you

Well another week comes to a close and that means another edition of the weekend roundup! More tips and links to some of my favorite blog posts from around the blogosphere... FROM THE DESK OF FLEA Sorry I missed a post here and there this week. Business travel bites the big one...not to mention school. ADMINISTRATIVE STUFF My thanks go out to Mr. Rawles from Survival Blog for placing a link to m

Well another week comes to a close and I am starting a new feature here at Be A Survivor called "The Weekend Roundup". It will feature links to some posts I enjoyed on other blogs as well as some short tidbits and tips. This week was a rough one for me...I had final projects due in school, tons going on at work and the wife and I drove to NJ to spend some time with the in-laws. Somehow I managed

A weekly roundup of publications, reports, events & articles from the leading UK think tanks. Welcome to this week’s Think-tank Roundup – everything from ‘new money’ and supply-side oil crunches to the call for better teachers and yes, Michael Gove’s ‘Nuts’ (there was more to his speech than that storm suggested). Things seem to be quiet [...]

Fractals and Generative Art are on of the most wonderfull things we can do in Flash. Due to the complexity of the abstract designs which fascinate our mind. The usual method used by the developers is the recursive algorithm. In this post i try to feature some of the few tutrorials and source available. If [...]

It seems the Lohans knew it was a long weekend here in Canada and decided to unleash a whole bucket of crazy, which means we have a lot of catching up to do. In case you don’t want to read the whole article (please do!) Here is a quick recap of what happened while everyone [...]

The customary weekly roundupI hope you have found my new initiative helpful and interesting. The following are some of the more interesting reads from top business papers:Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization @ NY Times – Gas and oil price levels are significantly reducing the attractiveness of imports in favor of local goods. Sounds much more natural, doesn’t it?Ditch the Gas Guzzler? W

My wife and I took it easy this weekend. I kicked back and read a Clive Cussler novel, which was the first non-financial book I’ve read since I went on vacation in June. I enjoy reading, but I don’t seem to have enough time to read as often as I would like. If you’re not familiar [...]

July 2008 Month for BlogsDNA was quite good, Regular traffic got almost doubled as well as BlogsDNA got Google PageRank of 2 [Google Love]. July month was full of news and events and I had tried to be first at posting this news. SERP for BlogsDNA got improved a lot and I can see this SERP [...]

Hollywood, in its desperation, explores the bottom of the bottom of the barrel with “Tropic Thunder”, according to the New York Times in an article titled “New film test’s crudity’s limits”. While we’re not sure we’re ready for yet another Ben Stiller vehicle, we pray it’s not just hype. Salman “Scruffy” Rushdie disputes his bodygua

Welcome to the Saturday Roundup of Credit Withdrawal posts and other interesting posts around the blogosphere. I’ve missed a few of these Saturday roundups (in more meanings than one) and decided to try to get back to my roots. I’m trying to concentrate on posting more often, and I’ll be hosting the Carnival of [...]